He played a key role in strengthening the North-East Frontier Tracts of India in the face of the Chinese annexation of Tibet, and managed the Indian integration of Tawang in 1951.

Jairamdas Daulatram was born into a Sindhi Hindu family in Karachi, Sindh, which was then part of the Bombay Presidency in British India on 21 July 1891.

Daulatram was deeply influenced by the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, which advocated simple living, and a struggle for independence through ahimsa (non-violence) and satyagraha.

At the Amritsar session of the Congress, 1919, acute differences had arisen on the reforms resolution between Gandhiji on the one hand and Tilak, C.R.

Malaviya (who was presiding anxiously) overheard it, snatched the paper from my hands and, amid deafening cheers, announced that a compromise had been arrived at.

"[citation needed] When Gandhi was launching the Salt March in 1930, he wrote to Daulatram, who was then member of the Bombay Legislative Council: "I have taken charge of the Committee for Boycott of Foreign Cloth.

[citation needed] Daulatram participated in the Non-cooperation movement (1920–1922), agitating against British rule through non-violent civil disobedience.

Daulatram was shot and wounded in the thigh when police opened fire on street protesters agitating outside a magistrate's court in Karachi in 1930.

[1] In the 1947 Partition of India, Daulatram's native Sindh was included in newly created state of Pakistan, with Karachi as its capital.

[3] Much of this programme fell on Daulatram's shoulders as the frontier tracts shared a long semi-settled border with Tibet.

[4] By December 1950, it was clear that the Chinese troops had occupied eastern Tibet up to Zayul, and were knocking on the doors of the Mishmi tribes.

[8] He had his men do a flag march around Tawang with bayonets fixed to their guns in order to send a message that he meant business.

Scholar Sonia Shukla, who investigated the official correspondence, found that the Ministry was certainly aware of Daulatram's actions and had in fact authorised them.